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Family Impact Statements - Additional Resources

The following list is not exhaustive; however it should provide you with a good starting point for additional research and analysis.

Demographics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has a number of resources available that provide general statistical information on Australia’s population, including births, deaths and marriages; family structures; and family types and locations.

• Australian Social Trends – ABS
• Year Book Australia 2008 – ABS
• A Picture of the Nation The Statistician’s Report on the 2006 Census – ABS
• Indigenous releases – ABS
• Migration and ethnicity releases – ABS

The following resource may also be of assistance:

• Older Australians at a glance – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Family statistics and characteristics

The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS), and the Families in Australia 2008 report, provide useful statistical information on family types and characteristics.

• Family Facts and Figure – AIFS
• Diversity and change in Australian families: Statistical profiles – AIFS
• Families in Australia 2008 – PM&C

Family relationships

The following resources may be of assistance:

• Social Policy Research Paper Series – FaHCSIA
• AIFS publications – AIFS
• Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse – AIFS
• Families in Australia 2008 – PM&C
• The wellbeing of young Australians – The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
• Migrant and ethnicity releases – ABS

Economic wellbeing

The following resources may be of assistance:

• Families in Australia 2008 – PM&C
• Australian Social Trends (includes information about debt and superannuation) – ABS
• Year Book Australia 2008 (includes information about the labour force) – ABS
• Australian economic indicators (includes information about the labour force and demography) – ABS
• A range of other ABS releases may also be of assistance
• Making Progress: the health, development and wellbeing of Australia's children (includes information about jobless families) – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey – The Melbourne Institute
• Economic and Social Indicators – The Melbourne Institute
• The estimated costs of children in Australian families 2005-06 – FaHCSIA
• ARACY Report Card on the Wellbeing of Young Australians (includes information about poverty) – The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
• Families (includes information about income distribution) – Social Policy Research Centre

Work and family balance

The following resources may be of assistance:

• Families in Australia 2008 – PM&C
• AIFS publications – AIFS
• Australian social trends – ABS
• Year Book Australia 2008 – ABS
• Australian Economic Indicators (includes information on the labour force, income and labour costs) – ABS
• Families – FaHCSIA
• Families – Social Policy Research Centre
• Children and Young People – Social Policy Research Centre
• Families and children resources – (including the Babies and Bosses publication series) OECD

Child health

The following resources may be of assistance:

• Health releases – ABS
• Disability updates: children with disabilities – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• Young Australians: their health and wellbeing 2007 – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• Australia’s Health 2008 – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• Making Progress: the health, development and wellbeing of Australia's children – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• UNICEF - The state of the world's children 2009 – UNICEF
• Murdoch Childrens Research Institute - Healthy development – Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
• Disability – The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
• The wellbeing of young Australians – The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
• Children and young people (includes information on carers) – Social Policy Research Centre

Child development and wellbeing

The following resources may be of assistance:

• AIFS publications (includes information on housing, child care, child protection and family violence)
• Growing up in Australia - Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
• Footprints in Time – the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children – FaHCSIA
• Family and community releases (includes information on child care) – ABS
• Child and youth releases – ABS
• Education and Training releases (includes information on child care) – ABS
• Making Progress: the health, development and wellbeing of Australia's children (includes information on child care and early childhood education) – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• Social Policy Research Papers – FaHCSIA
• The wellbeing of young Australians – The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
• National Child Protection Clearinghouse – AIFS
• Family / domestic violence publications (includes information on family violence) – Australian Institute of Criminology

Additional links

The following resources and websites may also be of assistance:

• Census of Population of Housing (2006) – ABS
• Australian Social Trends – ABS
• Child and youth releases – ABS
• Indigenous releases – ABS
• Family and community releases – ABS
• Communities and Families Clearinghouse Australia – AIFS
• Australia’s Welfare 2007 – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
• NATSEM – the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
• The Parliament of Australia Parliamentary Library may also have relevant documents

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